Keepers of Edanvant

From the flaps of the Tor first edition: "Silver-eyed Irissa, the Torloc seeress, has been searching for her people and for their home world. Edanvant, through years, through Gate between Worlds. Accompanied by Kendric the Wrathman, the human skeptic who, by bed bond, has gained the magical powers he utterly distrusts, Irissa finds an Edanvant far bleaker than she hoped - a family that is not a family, a people divided against itself, a planet walled and threatened. Irissa, left behind untutored when the last Torlocs departed her home world of Rule, has almost no memory of her mother, and none at all of her father - or of any Torloc male. She does remember Finorian, the ancient Torloc who is the only other living seeress - Finorian the powerful, the frightening, the enigmatic. It is Finorian who has brought Irissa to Edanvant. Finorian needs her. The men have refused to obey Finorian's rule, they have found amulets that give them their own magical powers - all but one. Orvath, their leader has no amulet, but only the scars of an icy battle that has frozen his body and his heart. Behind the leaders, on opposite sides of great Iridesium walls, the men and women are ranged in fierce determination. They've learned to hate each other. Finorian needs Irissa, to help her in the struggle against the men. But Finorian and the women do not make Kendric welcome... And Kendric, meeting Torlocs for the first time, begins to grasp Irissa's Torloc otherness from him - and cannot accept it. Perhaps the two will find welcome among the men... Meanwhile, and offworld menace gathers force in Edanvant. The evil wizard Geronfrey, who once stole Irissa's reflection in his black mirror, now wants her very essence. What part does he play in the strange infectious strife in Edanvant, the strife that seems to distort all living creatures of the world, and even the world itself? Even Kendric and Irissa... Written with all of Carole Nelson Douglas's color and magic, Keeper's of Edanvant is the first book of the new Sword and Circlet trilogy - ending the journey begun in Six of Swords and Exiles of the Rynth, and beginning the next astonishing quest."